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From: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex
Date: Monday, August 6, 2007 - 2:10 pm

Em Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:36:55 -0300
"Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> escreveu:

| Em Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:46:08 +0200
| Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> escreveu:
| 
| | 
| | >  typedef struct { 
| | >  	int size;
| | > -	struct semaphore sem;
| | > +	struct mutex lock;
| | 
| | hm, looks good to me but i'm wondering why this was a holdout for such a 
| | long time :-) Did you manage to test actual LDT functionality with this 
| | patch applied?
| 
|  No, I didn't. The only test I did was to run the kernel with this
| patch applied.
| 
|  I'll manage to test it then. Do you have a test-case or has any
| suggestion?

 And again, SMTP problems makes me looks like a joker...

 Sorry for the spam, just realized the problem now.

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Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
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[PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex, Luiz Fernando N. Cap ..., (Fri Aug 3, 6:55 am)
Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Aug 6, 12:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex, Luiz Fernando N. Cap ..., (Mon Aug 6, 6:34 am)
Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex, Luiz Fernando N. Cap ..., (Mon Aug 6, 6:36 am)
Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex, Luiz Fernando N. Cap ..., (Mon Aug 6, 6:36 am)
Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex, Luiz Fernando N. Cap ..., (Mon Aug 6, 6:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Aug 6, 8:25 am)
Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex, Luiz Fernando N. Cap ..., (Mon Aug 6, 10:15 am)
Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Aug 6, 10:43 am)
Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex, Andi Kleen, (Mon Aug 6, 12:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex, Luiz Fernando N. Cap ..., (Mon Aug 6, 1:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex, Luiz Fernando N. Cap ..., (Mon Aug 6, 2:10 pm)